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Passage 35. Owning Books

We enjoy reading books that belong to us much more than if they are borrowed.

A borrowed book is like a guest in the house;

it must be treated with punctiliousness, with a certain considerate formality.

You must see that it sustains no damage; it must not suffer while under your roof.

But your own books belong to you;

you treat them with that affectionate intimacy that annihilates formality.

Books are for use, not for show;

you should own no book that you are afraid to mark up,

or afraid to place on the table, wide open and face down.

A good reason for marking favorite passages in books

is that this practice enables you to remember more easily the significant sayings,

to refer to them quickly, and then in later years,

it is like visiting a forest where you once blazed a trail.

Everyone should begin collecting a private library in youth;

the instinct of private property can here be cultivated with every advantage and no evils.

The best of mural decorations is books;

they are more varied in color and appearance than any wallpaper,

they are more attractive in design,

and they have the prime advantage of being separate personalities,

so that if you sit alone in the room in the firelight,

you are surrounded with intimate friends.

The knowledge that they are there in plain view is both stimulating and refreshing.

Books are of the people, by the people, for the people.

Literature is the immortal part of history;

it is the best and most enduring part of personality.

Book-friends have this advantage over living friends;

you can enjoy the most truly aristocratic society in the world whenever you want it.

The great dead are beyond our physical reach,

and the great living are usually almost as inaccessible.

But in a private library,

you can at any moment converse with Socrates or Shakespeare or Carlyle or Dumas or Dickens.

And there is no doubt that in these books you see these men at their best.

They "laid themselves out," they did their ultimate best to entertain you,

to make a favorable impression.

You are necessary to them as an audience is to an actor;

only instead of seeing them masked,

you look into their innermost heart of heart.

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